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Most new Texas jobs went to immigrants, legal and illegal (Rick Perry; who to blame; what to do) - 09/22/11

... mostly includes those in the tea parties sphere. Over the last two and a half years they could have easily reduced illegal immigration if they'd wanted to and had been able to overcome their various liabilities. Instead, the teaparty base has mostly ignored immigration and their top leaders are on the wrong side. That's despite how helping me promote my two-and-a-half-year old jobs plan could...

Texas Teaparty groups pressure Rick Perry on immigration (sanctuary cities) - 09/19/11

A few days ago, a coalition of tea party and conservative groups came out against an anti-illegal immigration bill. Now, for fair and balanced coverage, there's this (link): Tea Party activists are promising to hold Rick Perry's feet to the fire over illegal immigration. A group of them will stage a news conference at the Texas Capitol on Monday urging Perry to enact a ban on so-called “sanctuary...

Teaparty, conservative groups oppose anti-illegal immigration bill (eVerify, HR 2885) - 09/15/11

... the main reasons I oppose the tea parties is because they're useful idiots for loose borders hacks: libertarians, fiscal conservatives, corporate tools, and so on. A good example comes in an open letter that a group of Teaparty, conservative, and libertarian groups published in Politico opposing HR 2885, the Legal Workforce Act. That bill would make eVerify mandatory for most employers in the U....

Teaparty shouts "yeah!" to just letting the uninsured die (Ron Paul, CNN, GOP debate) - 09/13/11

... Parkinson's victim (see the video on tea parties). Their encore was at last night's GOP debate where at least two teapartiers shouted "Yeah!" on whether to allow the uninsured to just die. Video below. Yes, it was just two or three teapartiers, but it's an illustration of the teapartier mindset and where libertarian policies lead. It's not like the teapartiers in general have shown much concern...

Is discouraging voting by the poor and welfare recipients a good idea? (Matthew Vadum, American Thinker) - 09/03/11

... him, especially those in the tea parties. He writes: Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery. Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It...

Is Tea Party a racist group? No, and here's why. - 08/30/11

Calling the Tea Parties a racist group is false and it's counter-productive: there are much better, much healthier, and much more effective way to oppose them. In this post I'll provide very compelling evidence that they aren't racist. Obviously, even the very compelling evidence below isn't going to sway some people who will continue to oppose the teapartiers in counter-productive ways. If you...

The "How is Tea Party Wrong?" Video Contest - 08/25/11

... persuasive argument against the tea parties (see our extensive coverage at that link). The video that wins the contest will be able to change the minds of at least some people about their movement. Anyone can submit a video as long as it's hosted at Youtube (see the fine print below). How does it work? The first phase will take place over a month or two as videos are submitted. Then, there will...

Dick Durbin refuses to answer bad Tea Party question; "reporters" run cover for Durbin - 08/12/11

... increased the paranoia of the tea parties types and gave them yet another instance of victimization to rally around. Luckily for him, they won't be able to do anything about it: they'll keep on asking bad questions instead of learning how to ask good questions such as the ones on the DREAM Act page. In some ways, this video is an example of the question authority plan in action. What's missing...

Tea Party polls *worse* in U.S. than bin Laden in MidEast: just 58% think teapartiers aren't terrorists - 08/08/11

... supported Osama bin Laden. See tea parties for our extensive coverage of their movement including past polls. And, the next time Teaparty enablers try to present them as representing mainstream American opinion, direct them to this post.

Challenge for liberals: show how Powerline Prize winner is wrong - 08/01/11

... ideas of libertarians and the tea parties are wrong to those who lean to the conservative side of things. It's easy to show people who agree with you that something is wrong, it's not so easy to change minds. The goal of this post is different. I want you my liberal visitor to present an argument that will change the minds of those who might consider joining the tea parties movement, or to...

Power Line Prize 3rd place winner: satire or just delusional Tea Party fantasy? - 07/28/11

... Nussbaum making fun of the Powerline/Tea Parties brand of delusion, or not? I'm really not sure. To help Teapartiers understand why the video is so (unintentionally?) funny, here are some questions: 1. In which exact year was Powerline's fantasy a reality? 2. What else was going on in that year? 3. How are things different nowadays? 4. In which exact years was this true: "Men were allowed to...

Challenge for Teaparty: can you justify cuts to literacy programs (including Reading is Fundamental)? - 07/25/11

... coming back, and those in the tea parties and libertarians camp - and now the GOP under their sway - don't want it to come back. In fact, they want to get rid of even more: "The president... needs to take much more than a scalpel to the Department of Education's budget - there’s room to take an ax," said Lindsey Burke, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. Thus,...

S.E. Cupp asks GOP candidates weak questions at Twitter "debate" (140Townhall, Rusty Humphries, Tea Party) - 07/20/11

... Cupp moderated a Twitter-based tea parties "debate" with several GOP candidates for president [1]. She acted the role of the shill, asking them very weak questions and not doing a public service. Interns at Godfather's Pizza were probably asked tougher questions in their job interviews than the ones that Cupp asked Herman Cain and others. Make sure and see the background on one of the groups...

Tea Party Patriots admit immigration "isn't an issue for us" (Mark Meckler) - 07/12/11

... examples in the posts on the tea parties page, and the leader of a major Teaparty group has now explicitly confirmed that his group isn't really all that concerned about an issue that's more important than spending. In an article [1] featuring a Hispanic activist claiming - contra almost all evidence - that the teaparty movement as a whole is pushing anti-illegal immigration bills appears this (...

Patriots teaparty! Chicago writing test stop! Money save! Look! - 07/08/11

Patriots tea parties, look, save money, stop money spend, Chicago, Illinois!! Look: Illinois will assess only reading and arithmetic now that high school juniors will no longer be tested on their writing skills during standardized exams every spring, according to a published report. Cutting the writing exams will save about $2.4 million amid the state's budgetary shortfalls. Writing tests for...

Freedomworks uses Teaparty-approved Alinsky tactics... against Teaparty (not a learning experience) - 06/29/11

As discussed on the tea parties page, the teapartiers could have pushed their same aberrant ideology using much more effective and much more civil tactics. Instead, they chose to act like a childish caricature of the far-left: throwing tantrums at public meetings, standing on street corners waving loopy signs, engaging in cheap stunts, playing dress-up games, smearing and lying, and on and on....

Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Limbaugh, Hannity paid to promote FreedomWorks, AFP, Heritage (Koch, immigration) - 06/18/11

... immigration. They're one of the main tea parties stringpullers, and they've probably played a key role in keeping that group from highlighting immigration; see the last link for all the details. The exact amount they pay to Beck isn't known, but they paid $1.4 million last year to Rebecca Hagelin for "advertising services", part of which made its way to Beck. The Politico article includes this:...

War on Electability: FreedomWorks to oppose Mitt Romney; what the GOP can do (Tea Party) - 05/25/11

... potential candidates. So, the tea parties - controlled in large part by Freedomworks even if they don't know it - might bring their NY-26 magic to the national stage and help elect Barack Obama to four more years. What the GOP can do about this is to declare "war" on Freedomworks right back: 1. Somehow, some way make an argument that libertarian-oriented policies (or the LibertarianLite version...

Tea Party loses another race for the GOP (Paul Ryan, upstate New York, Kathy Hochul, Jane Corwin) - 05/24/11

... Republican Party partisan, the tea parties are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, their insane rantings bring a fresh piquancy to the sometimes staid GOP. On the other hand, they're putting pressure on the GOP to be crazy, extremist, and largely unappealing to moderates. And, they're splitting the vote, even when the "Tea Party" candidate appears to be a fake teapartier. Thus it is in the case...

Tea Party helps me show Teapartiers are vile idiots, Part 1 of ? - 05/23/11

As can be seen on the tea parties page, I have a very, very low opinion of their movement. However, there is one good thing about them: they're dumb enough to help me show how they're vile idiots. And, they've done that many, many times. And, I'll be compiling them into a series. For the first part of the series, in March 2011, Mary Katharine Ham of the Daily Caller posted "The New Tone is...

Massey Energy "profoundly reckless" in mine disaster; Tea Party as useful idiots; Soros, U.S. Chamber - 05/22/11

... millionth time that those in the tea parties movement are useful idiots: villains like Don Blankenship hide behind red white and blue banners in order to push a money-making agenda. See some of the responses here. The teaparty mind (such as it is) is unable and unwilling to realize that perhaps *both* the Nancy Pelosi types *and* the Don Blankenship types aren't on their side. Those like...

Far-left Robert Erickson dumps glitter on Newt Gingrich; teaparty, ALIPAC partly to blame (Nick Espinosa) - 05/18/11

... their opponents. So, how are the tea parties and ALIPAC partly to blame for the incident? Because back in November 2009, Erickson "punked" a teaparty/ALIPAC event and those attending were incapable of preventing him from doing it. In fact, some of them even helped him. Read about the incident at that link. If even just one of the people attending that event had engaged Erickson in debate on...

Delusional John Hinderaker thinks only left engages in "personal intimidation" - 05/12/11

... Hinderaker had never heard of the tea parties. Since he's clearly heard of them, is he either delusional, or is he trying to mislead? One of the reasons why I oppose the teapartiers is because they act just as badly as vile leftists. Certainly, no teapartiers have as far as I know swarmed the houses of their opponents. However, they have thrown dollar bills at a Parkinson's sufferer (see the...

Palatine Teaparty opposes Illinois DREAM Act (for completely wrong reasons) - 05/09/11

... national bill; see [1]). One Tea Parties group in that state is opposing it, but for the completely wrong reasons; see below. First, here are just a few mainstream reasons why the great majority of Illinoisans should oppose the bill: 1. Every college education that an illegal alien gets is one that was taken away from an American citizen. See the main DREAM Act page for a discussion, including a...

Teaparty leader Dick Armey now wants Mitch Daniels for president - 04/29/11

... after him. * Dick Armey leads the tea parties around by the nose, whether they admit it or not. Without his organizing efforts and funding of various events, many fewer people would have even heard about them. He probably played a major role in the teapartiers largely ignoring immigration for over two years, despite it being far more important than spending and despite it being where the...

A list of "conservative" bloggers who are actually Communist agents of George Soros - 04/18/11

... are the valiant members of the tea parties, America's only true patriots. Thankfully, there are many of us, hundreds of thousands at least. Stay vigilant, patriots.

Government spending & the deficit are a distraction from much more important issues - 04/09/11

Last night, Congress finally did something about massive government spending (link), the single most important issue ever to face the U.S. and the only thing keeping us from continued hope, growth, opportunity and prosperity. Er, maybe not. And, in fact, others used to agree. For instance, consider this table showing the average number of monthly mentions of the listed terms at HotAir [1]. In...

How Glenn Beck could have kept his Fox News show - 04/07/11

... In brief, his viewers were the tea parties types. While he could get hundreds of thousands of them to come to Washington DC and virtually wave loopy signs, very few of them are capable of, interested in, or see any value in opposing those who oppose Beck in effective ways. They can wave loopy signs and play dress-up games like little kids, but anything intellectual is beyond them. For instance,...

Did Teapartiers get bilked out of nearly half a million dollars? - 04/04/11

... vast majority of those in the tea parties are - not to put too fine a point on it - suckers. Previously they wanted to have a beer with George W Bush, a quisling who allowed loose borders, who wanted to help lower U.S. wages to world levels, and who let foreign citizens take jobs away from American hurricane victims. Nowadays they're following leaders (Dick Armey of FreedomWorks, Grover Norquist...

Teaparty's growing unpopularity is now a liability for the GOP (the chart Tea Party doesn't want to see) - 03/31/11

The tea parties movement is now so unpopular that they're a liability for the Republican Party. For a clear example, see the chart below [1] showing how more and more Americans have developed an unfavorable opinion of them over time. Support for the Teaparties has topped out: they've been stuck around 30% since they began. However, all the while opposition to them has been rising. And, that...

Tea Party used to push corporate agenda (Institute for Liberty, Monsanto, Asian paper company) - 03/31/11

... been following our extensive tea parties coverage, you'll know where this is going (and if you're a teapartier, you'll have no clue): Last fall, [Institute for Liberty's] president, Andrew Langer, had himself videotaped [ peekURL.com/vM87wLC ] on Long Wharf in Boston holding a copy of the Declaration of Independence as he compared Washington’s proposed tariff on paper from Indonesia and China to...

Utah gov. Gary Herbert signs "guest" worker, other immigration bills - 03/15/11

... question authority plan. One tea parties group had, to their credit, opposed the guest workers plan, although they weren't present at the signing ceremony. There's also this: Asked what was the LDS Church's public position was on the immigration bills, [Presiding Bishop H. David Burton of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] said the church had endorsed the Utah Compact. "We feel...

Koch Industries' sockpuppets edited Wikipedia and post comments on blogs too - 03/09/11

... replies I receive to my anti-tea parties comments around the web (a recent example here) are coming from sockpuppets for Koch, FreedomWorks, and similar groups. From [1]: Last year, Koch Industries began employing New Media Strategies (NMS), an Internet PR firm that specializes in “word-of-mouth marketing” for major corporations including Coca-Cola, Burger King, AT&T, Dodge and Ford. It...

The Teaparty-ification of NPR (James O'Keefe, cheap stunts, distraction) - 03/09/11

... Conservatives - particularly those in the tea parties orbit - have very little interest in good reporting. Like liberals, they just want things to tilt their way. Those pushing to defund NPR aren't, for instance, encouraging them to do investigative pieces on both George Soros and the Koch family. 3. Those pushing to defund NPR are, with very rare exceptions (a few here: newsbusters.org/media-...

Obama plays race card on Tea Party and whites in general; "subterranean agenda"; Teaparty interferes with proper response - 03/03/11

... own akin to the NAACP are the tea parties. Yet, the only people in that movement who might be smart enough to intellectually challenge Obama and show how he's wrong are only in it for the money. The core "principles" of the teaparties are all about the money, and they explicitly ignore "social issues". So, when they're attacked using a "social issue" like the race card, they don't know what to...

Tim Pawlenty's crazy Tea Party outreach - 03/01/11

... Pawlenty is reaching out to the tea parties and doing it in big, crazy ways. Over the weekend, he appeared at the Teaparty "Patriots" summit in Phoenix, Arizona and said among other things this completely false statement (video: peekURL.com/vNQNJUT ): "I'm here to say thank you for standing up to the ruling class" [meaning: "liberal power brokers, guardians of the status quo and the royal...

Yet another example of Teaparty being useful idiots for the Koch brothers? (Madison union protests) - 02/19/11

Are the tea parties useful idiots for an attempt by the billionaire Koch family to fight unionization in order to increase their profits? The latest example of the Koch family pushing an agenda that helps their bottom line and getting help from the teapartiers in that endeavor comes from the protests between public sector unions and Republican governor Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin. I haven'...

Teaparty: 52% unfavorable, just 35% favorable (WaPo ABC poll) (socialism gets 36% favorable) - 01/19/11

... below] Per their enablers, the tea parties are as American as apple pie with a U.S. flag on top. So, why do many Americans have an unfavorable opinion of them? According to a new Washington Post / ABC News poll (link), just 35% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the teaparty movement, down from 38% in September 2010 and from 41% in March 2010. Meanwhile, their unfavorable rating has jumped...

Reason Magazine misleads about Jared Loughner (+AllahPundit, Glenn Reynolds) - 01/18/11

Reason Magazine offers the deceptive video "The Week in Stupid: Cable Pundits on the Gifford Shooting" (below). If you trust anything Reason tells you, keep reading. The video leads off with Zach Osler - a former friend of Jared Loughner - claiming that Loughner was apolitical. What Reason doesn't tell you is that Osler hadn't seen Loughner for two years. In fact, conveniently "forgetting" to...

Jared Loughner: anti-Bush, pro-small government? Intellectually dishonest Tea Party defenders - 01/17/11

Enablers of the tea parties have, of course, been completely intellectually dishonest when attempting to defend themselves against claims that Jared Loughner is linked to them in one way or another. One example is here, and today's example involves the New York Times piece "Looking Behind the Mug-Shot Grin" (link). Based on the relevant portion of that article [1], Loughner sounds a bit like a...
 
 
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